| Article ID: | iaor19911953 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Start Page Number: | 18 |
| End Page Number: | 24 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1990 |
| Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| Authors: | Hodgson Thom J., King Russell E., King Christina U. |
A division of a large manufacturing company produces a homogeneous product in several different variants at a number of facilities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Demand for the product is evenly split between the open market and other divisions of the company. A minimum-cost network-flow model of the production system was formulated and an extensive user-friendly interface developed so that nontechnical management could interact directly to impose real-life constraints on the system. Details of the implementation strategies are given.